Gym Setup & Facility Design

The category error that produces the most consistently poor equipment decisions in commercial fitness is applying general commercial gym procurement logic to a sports performance facility — or vice versa. These two facility types serve fundamentally different populations with different training demands, programming models, and success metrics. The equipment configurations that serve them well are […]

A boutique fitness studio is not a small version of a large commercial gym. The procurement logic that applies to a 2,000 sqm multi-zone facility — prioritise variety, maximise machine count, cover every exercise category — produces exactly the wrong outcome when applied to a 100 sqm studio. In a boutique context, equipment that looks